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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






2. The main character of a literary work.






3. The time and place of a story or play.






4. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






5. A short saying with a moral.






6. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






7. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






8. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






9. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






10. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






11. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






12. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






13. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






14. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






15. A strong pause within a line.






16. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






17. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






18. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






19. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






20. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






21. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






22. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






23. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






24. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






25. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






26. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






27. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






28. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






29. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






30. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






31. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






32. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






33. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






34. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






35. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






36. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






37. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






38. The organizational form of a literary work.






39. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






40. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






41. The person who 'tells' the story.






42. A character struggles against some outside force.






43. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






44. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






45. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






46. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






47. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






48. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






49. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






50. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.